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The Daily Bucket - earliest flowers and foliage [1]
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Date: 2025-03-18
March 2025
Pacific Northwest
2025 has been cooler and dryer than usual, and some of the phenology reflects that. Flowering and leafing out is a week or two later than average.
Pictures below were taken in the last couple of days.
All these plants are native to western Washington.
Salmonberry
Rubus spectabilis
Red flowering currant
Ribes sanguineum
Red alder
Alnus rubra
Beaked hazelnut
Corylus cornuta
Soopolalie, male plant
Shepherdia canadensis
Female Soopolalie flowers and leaves are a bit later
Evergreen huckleberry
Vaccinium ovatum
In terms of foliage, the earliest fresh spring greenery include these below. Their flowers will be another month.
Trailing blackberry
Rubus ursinus
Red elderberry
Sambucus racemosa
Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albu
Oceanspray Holodiscus discolor
And everybody’s favorite…
Stinging nettle
Urtica dioica
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Partly cloudy in the PNW islands today and cool. Light breeze. Daytime temps in the upper 40s, nighttime mid 40s.
What’s up in nature in your neighborhood?
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